Shaker Joe reports that Bill Maher is still a wanker who insists on telling rape jokes, ending his last "New Rules" with the hilarious line: "And let us not forget as we say our adieu for this season, that there is a clear path to the nomination for Hillary. She just needs to raise a lot of money; she needs to woo a key group of super delegates and she needs Reverend Jeremiah Wright to rape a white woman."

Shaker TS forwards maddening news out of India: A 6-year-old girl was thrown onto a fire by a man who saw her walking through a path reserved for upper caste villagers, because she is a Dalit (from the class known as the "untouchables"). The man who pushed her has been charged with attempted murder.

I was reading my local newspaper this morning and I thought I would send you a link to this particular article. It's rather lengthy, but about three-quarters of the way down the first page, is this paragraph...

"The board says two assaults against women -- one before the hijacking in 1972 and another against a female psychiatrist in 1986 -- show acute hostility towards women. Psychiatrists have said he is a sexual deviant who has a penchant for non-consensual sex.

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Shaker Joe reports that Bill Maher is still a wanker who insists on telling rape jokes, ending his last "New Rules" with the hilarious line: "And let us not forget as we say our adieu for this season, that there is a clear path to the nomination for Hillary. She just needs to raise a lot of money; she needs to woo a key group of super delegates and she needs Reverend Jeremiah Wright to rape a white woman."

Shaker TS forwards maddening news out of India: A 6-year-old girl was thrown onto a fire by a man who saw her walking through a path reserved for upper caste villagers, because she is a Dalit (from the class known as the "untouchables"). The man who pushed her has been charged with attempted murder.

I was reading my local newspaper this morning and I thought I would send you a link to this particular article. It's rather lengthy, but about three-quarters of the way down the first page, is this paragraph...

"The board says two assaults against women -- one before the hijacking in 1972 and another against a female psychiatrist in 1986 -- show acute hostility towards women. Psychiatrists have said he is a sexual deviant who has a penchant for non-consensual sex.

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